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Hattie Tavernier is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Michelle Gayle between 5 July 1990 and 21 December 1993. Hattie and her family were introduced in July 1990 by producer Michael Ferguson. The Taverniers were the first collective black family to join the soap at the same time. Portr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie%20Tavernier |
Grafschaft is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km south of Bonn.
Grafschaft is famous for its Rheinischer Zuckerrübensirup, a PGI-protected sugar-beet syrup.
The following 17 villages belong to Grafschaft:
Alteheck
Beller
Bengen
Birresdorf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafschaft%2C%20Rhineland |
James Loudon (May 24, 1841 – December 29, 1916) was a Canadian professor of mathematics and physics and President of the University of Toronto from 1892 to 1906. He was the first Canadian-born professor at the University of Toronto.
Biography
Loudon was educated at the Toronto Grammar School, Upper Canada College, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Loudon |
José Suárez Carreño (1915–2002) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was born in Guadalupe, Mexico, but lived in Madrid from an early age.
Awards
He was awarded the Adonais Prize in 1945 for his book Edad del hombre (age of man), the Nadal Prize in 1949 for his book Las últimas horas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Su%C3%A1rez%20Carre%C3%B1o |
Drudenhaus is the second studio album by the French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa. The album received very positive reviews from critics, and it meant a European breakthrough for the band.
Track listing
"A Doleful Night in Thelema" - 4:57
"The Drudenhaus Anthem" - 5:13
"God Bless the Hustler" - 4:35
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudenhaus |
Washburn Field is a 1,500-seat stadium located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is home of the field sports teams from Colorado College and is the oldest college football facility west of the Mississippi River, having hosted its first game in 1898. It once was home to the Colorado Springs Blizzard; that team ceased t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washburn%20Field |
Otto II ( 995 – 7 September 1047), a member of the Ezzonid dynasty, was Count Palatine of Lotharingia from 1034 until 1045 and Duke of Swabia from 1045 until his death.
Life
Otto was the son of the Lotharingian count palatine Ezzo (955–1034) and his wife Matilda (979–1025), a daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20II%2C%20Duke%20of%20Swabia |
Sickness Insurance (Industry) Convention, 1927 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1927:
Modification
The principles contained in the convention were revised and included in ILO Convention C130.
Ratifications
As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 29 states. One state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness%20Insurance%20%28Industry%29%20Convention%2C%201927 |
This list of film spoofs in Mad includes films spoofed (parodied) by the American comic magazine Mad. Usually, an issue of Mad features a spoof of at least one feature film or television program. The works selected by the staff of Mad are typically from cinema and television in the United States.
The authors parody th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20film%20spoofs%20in%20Mad |
U.S. Family Network, Inc. (USFN) was founded in 1996 by Ed Buckham, who also served as the organization's consultant. USFN was a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) corporation founded in Virginia, with its principal offices located in the District of Columbia in the same building as Buckham's consulting firm Alexander Strategy Group... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Family%20Network |
Sickness Insurance (Agriculture) Convention, 1927 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1927:
Modification
The principles contained in this convention were subsequently revised and included in ILO Convention C130.
Ratifications
As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 21 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness%20Insurance%20%28Agriculture%29%20Convention%2C%201927 |
Crazy Horse Too is a closed strip club located at 2476 Industrial Road in Las Vegas, Nevada, a few blocks west of the Las Vegas Strip. The club was known as Billy Jo's during the 1970s. In 1978, the club was purchased by Mob member Tony Albanese and renamed Billy Jo's Crazy Horse Too, after the Crazy Horse Saloon, anot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Horse%20Too |
The Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests is a montane subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion in the mountains of Northeastern India and adjacent portions of Myanmar (also known as Burma).
Setting
The ecoregion covers an area of of the Naga Hills that with the Patkai (including the Lushai Hills) and the Manipur Hills... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20India%E2%80%93Myanmar%20pine%20forests |
Mayday "Dean" Trippe is a United States-based comic book artist and illustrator. Trippe graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Sequential Art in 2003.
Work
Along with Jamie Dee Galey, Trippe was also one of the instigators of the 2005 Batgirl Livejournal Meme, which grew into a phenomen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday%20Trippe |
The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament was staged at four venues aro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Africa%20Cup%20of%20Nations |
Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1928:
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to minimum wage-fixing machinery,...
The principles of the convention were modified and included in the Minimum Wage Fixing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20Wage-Fixing%20Machinery%20Convention%2C%201928 |
The CBSO Chorus is a chorus based in Birmingham, England.
Description
It was founded in 1973 as the CBSO Chorus, with an upper age limit of 45 years old. Simon Halsey has served as Chorus Director since 1983. Between 1995 and 2009 was known officially as The City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus (CBSC). The chorus is al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBSO%20Chorus |
Otto Hoetzsch (14 February 1876 – 27 August 1946), was a German academic and politician (German Conservative Party, DNVP and KVP). At the beginning of the 20th century, he was one of the founders of East German research and advocated dealing with the Eastern European states amicably. For this reason, when he spoke out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Hoetzsch |
Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (31 March 1891 – 13 June 1954), known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. She was born in Biłgoraj, Vistula Land to a rabbinic Jewish family. Her younger brothers Israel Joshua Singer and Isaac Bashevis Singer subsequently became writers.
E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Kreitman |
John Henry Batchelor MBE (1936-2019) was an English artist and technical illustrator, particularly known for his clear and detailed cutaway illustrations of vehicles and military equipment and stamp illustrations. His work can be seen in many hundreds of late-20th-century works on armour, fighting vehicles, ships, fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Batchelor%20%28illustrator%29 |
Albert Leslie Yoxall (18 May 1914 – 30 September 2005) was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. He devised a method to assist in solving Enigma messages which was dubbed Yoxallismus. After the war he worked at GCHQ until the mid-1970s.
Early life
Albert Leslie Yoxall was born on 18 May 1914 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Yoxall |
Kelvin Trent Tucker (born December 20, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player who played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
A shooting guard, Tucker attended the University of Minnesota from 1978 to 1982, leading them to a Big Ten Conference championship in his senior ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent%20Tucker |
Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by Vessels) Convention, 1929 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1929:
Ratifications
As of 2013, the treaty has been ratified by 66 states.
External links
Text.
Ratifications.
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marking%20of%20Weight%20%28Packages%20Transported%20by%20Vessels%29%20Convention%2C%201929 |
Jari Veikko Sillanpää (; born 16 August 1965) is a Finnish-Swedish singer. With over 820,000 records sold, he is the fifth-best-selling music artist and second-best-selling solo artist in Finland.
Life and career
Born into a Sweden-Finnish family, Sillanpää spent his childhood in Sweden. His mother was one of the ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari%20Sillanp%C3%A4%C3%A4 |
Hen Cliff is part of the Jurassic Coast near Kimmeridge in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England.
The cliff runs from the eastern end of Kimmeridge Bay (below the folly called Clavell Tower) east to an area called Cuddle. The cliffs consist (as at Kimmeridge Bay) of ledges of dolomite interspersed with thicker units of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen%20Cliff |
Adenau () is a town in the High Eifel in Germany. It is known as the Johanniterstadt because the Order of Saint John was based there in the Middle Ages. The town's coat of arms combines the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne with the lion of the lords of Nürburg. The northern loop of the Nürburgring lies just out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenau |
A mixed-species feeding flock, also termed a mixed-species foraging flock, mixed hunting party or informally bird wave, is a flock of usually insectivorous birds of different species that join each other and move together while foraging. These are different from feeding aggregations, which are congregations of several ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-species%20foraging%20flock |
The Utah Native Plant Society (UNPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation, preservation, conservation and responsible use of the native plants and plant communities found in the state of Utah and the Intermountain West. Its goal is to foster public recognition of the spectacularly diverse flora of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20Native%20Plant%20Society |
Business process outsourcing to India refers to the business process outsourcing services in the outsourcing industry in India, catering mainly to Western operations of multinational corporations (MNCs).
As of 2012, around 2.8 million people work in outsourcing sector. Annual revenues are around $11 billion, around 1%... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20process%20outsourcing%20to%20India |
AdHouse Books was an independent comic book publisher based in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 2002 by graphic designer Chris Pitzer.
AdHouse was known primarily as a publisher of graphic novels, beginning with 2002's Pulpatoon: Pilgrimage, traditional comic book series, and art books, including James Jean's Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdHouse%20Books |
The Ministry of Railways (, Wazarat-e-Railway, abbreviated as MoR) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan tasked with planning, administrating and overseeing government policies for the development of the national rail network, Pakistan Railways. Originally a department of the Ministry of Communications, in May 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Railways%20%28Pakistan%29 |
The Dimond District () is a neighborhood centered on the intersection of MacArthur Boulevard and Fruitvale Avenue in East Oakland, California, in the United States. It is located about two miles east of Lake Merritt, north of the Fruitvale District, and west of the Laurel District. It lies at an elevation of 213 feet (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimond%20District%2C%20Oakland%2C%20California |
Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians, based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Members of the group have been credited on records dating from 1972 to the present, although the group was formally formed as "The Nashville String Machine" in 1981.
The group was formed by viol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville%20String%20Machine |
Altenahr () is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative centre for the eponymous collective municipality, to which it belongs. Altenahr is a state-recognised tourist resort and is ranked as a Grundzentrum for state planning purposes.
Geography
Location
A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenahr |
The Montreal–Gaspé train (formerly the Chaleur) was a thrice-weekly passenger train operated by Via Rail between Montreal and Gaspé, Quebec. Passenger rail service to Gaspé is to be restored in 2026.
History
In 1907 the Quebec Atlantic Oriental Railway was built from Matapédia through New Carlisle to Port Daniel, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal%E2%80%93Gasp%C3%A9%20train |
Gokul is a town in the Mathura district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located south-east of Mathura. According to Bhagavata Purana, Krishna spent his childhood in Gokul.
Geography
The town has an average elevation of .
Transportation
Gokul is conveniently located ten kilometers from Mathura, a well-kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokul |
Jack McVitie (19 April 1932 – 29 October 1967), best known as Jack the Hat, was an English criminal from London during the 1950s and 1960s. He is posthumously famous for triggering the imprisonment and downfall of the Kray twins. He had acted as an enforcer and hitman with links to The Firm, and was murdered by Reggie ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20McVitie |
Deep Red (), also known as The Hatchet Murders, is a 1975 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi. It stars David Hemmings as a musician who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves. The cast also stars Daria Ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Red |
Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention, 1929 (shelved) is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1929:
Modification
The concepts contained in the convention were revised and included in ILO Convention C32, Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection%20against%20Accidents%20%28Dockers%29%20Convention%2C%201929%20%28shelved%29 |
InkBall is a computer game that is included with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 and Windows Vista except the Starter and Home Basic editions. It employs the use of a stylus or mouse to draw lines to direct balls into holes of corresponding colors. On Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, a pen tablet was required to play t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InkBall |
New Obscurantis Order is the third album by the French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa.
Track listing
"Mother Anorexia"
"Châtiment De La Rose" (Eng: Chastisement of the Rose)
"Black Death, Nonetheless"
"Stabat Mater Dolorosa"
"Le Portail De La Vierge" (Eng: The Virgin's Portal)
"The Altar of Holocaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Obscurantis%20Order |
Bad Breisig () is a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the Rhine, approx. 15 km south-east of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.
Bad Breisig is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bad Breisig.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
Beate Berger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Breisig |
George Edmond Manley (born September 17, 1965) is an American voice actor, novelist and screenwriter. He attended San Jose State University, majoring in theatre arts, University of Nevada, Reno, majoring in journalism and holds his associate of science degree in Computer Information Systems and trained at San Francisco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Manley |
Mammaliaformes ("mammalian forms") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts. It is defined as the clade originating from the most recent common ancestor of Morganucodonta and the crown group mammals; the latter is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammaliaformes |
Wolfgang Schwarz (born 14 September 1947, in Vienna) is an Austrian former figure skater. He is the 1968 Olympic gold medalist (one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic champions), a two-time (1967–1968) World silver medalist, and three-time (1967–1969) European silver medalist. Prior to the Grenoble Olympics, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Schwarz |
In music theory, the half-diminished seventh chord (also known as a half-diminished chord or a minor seventh flat five chord) is a seventh chord composed of a root note, together with a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a minor seventh (1, 3, 5, 7). For example, the half-diminished seventh chord built on B, commonly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-diminished%20seventh%20chord |
Rochester-upon-Medway was a local government district in north Kent, England from 1974 to 1998. It covered Rochester, Chatham, Luton, Lordswood, Walderslade, Strood and the Hoo Peninsula.
The district was formed as the District of Medway under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the municipal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Rochester-upon-Medway |
Mistissini ( meaning Big Rock) is a Cree town located in the south-east corner of the largest natural lake in Quebec, Lake Mistassini. The town is inside the boundaries of the Baie-James Municipality and is the second largest Cree community with a population of 3,731 people in 2021. The surface area of the town is (Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistissini |
Purnell's Illustrated Encyclopedia of modern Weapons and Warfare is a partwork originating with Purnell in 1967–1969, republished under the Phoebus brand.
Its contributors and editors included Bill Gunston (aviation), Ian V. Hogg (land weapons), John Batchelor (illustrations) and editor Bernard Fitzsimons. The qualit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons%20and%20Warfare |
The Forced Labour Convention, the full title of which is the Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (No.29), is one of eight ILO fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization. Its object and purpose is to suppress the use of forced labour in all its forms irrespective of the nature o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced%20Labour%20Convention |
Brohltal is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km north-west of Koblenz. The seat of the municipality is in Niederzissen.
The Verbandsgemeinde Brohltal consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brohltal |
Natalie Kimberly "Kim" Seybold-Catron (born September 18, 1965) is an American former pair skater. Competing with her brother Wayne Seybold, she won five senior international medals, became a two-time U.S. national silver medalist, and competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The pair grew up in Marion, Indiana and were c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Seybold |
In music, a major seventh chord is a seventh chord in which the third is a major third above the root and the seventh is a major seventh above the root. The major seventh chord, sometimes also called a Delta chord, can be written as maj7, M7, , ⑦, etc. The "7" does not have to be superscripted, but if it is, then any a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20seventh%20chord |
Cultural selection theory is the study of cultural change modelled on theories of evolutionary biology. Cultural selection theory has so far never been a separate discipline. However it has been proposed that
human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and "the structure of a science of cultural ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20selection%20theory |
Purnell is a name shared by:
People
Alton Purnell (1911–1987), American pianist
Arthur Purnell (1878–1964), architect in Melbourne, Victoria
Benjamin Franklin Purnell (1861–1927), American preacher, House of David (commune)
Bervin E. Purnell (1891–1972), Australian politician
Charles Purnell (1843–1926), New Zeal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purnell |
Mount Ayanganna is a sandstone tepui in the Pakaraima Mountains of western Guyana, and located east of Mount Roraima.
With a height of it is the easternmost tepui taller than . It is part of the Guiana Shield and Guyana Highlands.
Ecology
The slopes of Mount Ayanganna are covered in tall-canopy lower montane forest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ayanganna |
Johann Ludwig Krebs (baptized 12 October 1713 – 1 January 1780) was a German Baroque musician and composer for the pipe organ, harpsichord, other instruments and orchestras. His output also included chamber music, choral works and concertos.
Life
Krebs was born in 1713 in Buttelstedt to Johann Tobias Krebs, an organis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Ludwig%20Krebs |
Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1930:
Ratifications
As of 2013, the convention had been ratified by 30 states. Two of the ratifying states—Finland and New Zealand—have subsequently denounced the treaty.
See also
Hours o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours%20of%20Work%20%28Commerce%20and%20Offices%29%20Convention%2C%201930 |
Vernell Eufaye "Bimbo" Coles (born April 22, 1968) is an American retired professional basketball player. He received his nickname from a cousin in reference to a country music song of the same name.
Coles was a standout at Greenbrier East High School in Lewisburg, West Virginia. At Greenbrier East, Coles played baske... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo%20Coles |
Don Manuel Luis Gayoso de Lemos y Amorín (May 30, 1747 – July 18, 1799) was the governor of Spanish Louisiana from 1797 until his death in 1799.
Biography
Early years and military career
Born in Oporto, Portugal, on May 30, 1747, to Spanish consul Manuel Luis Gayoso de Lemos y Sarmiento and Theresa Angélica de Amor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Gayoso%20de%20Lemos |
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm.
Originally intended to be published along with the author's 1958 work Culture and Society, this work examines the history of more than a hundred words that are familiar and yet confus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keywords%3A%20A%20Vocabulary%20of%20Culture%20and%20Society |
Giblets may refer to:
Giblets, the edible offal of a fowl
Gibs, or giblets, gamer slang expression for the remnants of a kill
Gibelet, a 13th-century Crusader holding, today known as Byblos
Guelphs and Ghibellines, Crusader factions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giblets%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Caitlin A. "Kitty" Carruthers (born May 30, 1961) is a former American pair skater. With her adoptive brother, Peter Carruthers, she won a 1984 Olympic Silver medal, a 1982 World Bronze medal, and had been a four-time (1981-1984) United States National champion.
Career
The Carruthers siblings were coached by Ronald L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty%20Carruthers |
Raul Morales, sometimes known as just "Rawl", has been one of San Pedro's most prolific drummers from the 1990s to present. He is currently the drummer for Killer Dreamer as well as Mike Watt of the Minutemen fame's current projects.
Bands and Line ups
The Secondmen: Mike Watt, Pete Mazich (or Paul Roessler), Raul Mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul%20Morales |
The NCC Class WT is a class of 2-6-4T steam locomotives built by the Northern Counties Committee's parent company, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for service in Northern Ireland.
History
18 Class WT locomotives were built at Derby Works in England to the design of George Ivatt between 1946 and 1950, numbere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCC%20Class%20WT |
This page details the process of qualifying for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations.
Qualified teams
The 16 qualified teams were:
as hosts.
as group 1 winner.
as group 2 winner.
as group 3 winner.
as group 4 winner.
as group 5 winner.
as group 6 winner.
as group 7 winner.
as group 8 winner.
as group 9 winner.
as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Africa%20Cup%20of%20Nations%20qualification |
Purnell and Sons started out as a small family printers based in Somerset which merged with other printers over the next 100 years to become one the largest print groups in the UK and at one time a major publisher.
History
The company was founded by Charles Dando Purnell in 1839 as a small family printers with small ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purnell%20and%20Sons |
Edin Dervišhalidović (born 12 September 1962), known professionally as Dino Merlin, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Born in Sarajevo, he was the founder and leader of Merlin, which eventually became one of the best-selling rock-bands of Southeast Europe.
Nicknamed "The Wizard", he is con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20Merlin |
Parrondo's paradox, a paradox in game theory, has been described as: A combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. It is named after its creator, Juan Parrondo, who discovered the paradox in 1996. A more explanatory description is:
There exist pairs of games, each with a higher probability of losing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrondo%27s%20paradox |
San Giovanni in Oleo is a chapel adjacent to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome. It commemorates the place where, according to legend, in 92 CE, at the hands of the emperor Domitian, the apostle John was immersed in a vat of boiling oil from which he emerged unharmed. Tradition relates that, having faile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Giovanni%20in%20Oleo |
Neyriz (, also Romanized as Neyrīz and Nīrīz) is a city in the Central District of Neyriz County, Fars province, Iran, serving as both capital of the district and of the county.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 45,180 in 11,970 households. The following census in 2011 counted 50,291 people in 14,416 hou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neyriz |
This is a list of characters appearing in the video games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003) and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004).
The main and player character of the first game is Revan, and the main and player character of the second game is the Jedi Exile. Both can be eith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters%20of%20the%20Star%20Wars%3A%20Knights%20of%20the%20Old%20Republic%20series |
Siân Reeves is an English actress, known for her roles as Sydney Henshall in the BBC drama Cutting It, Sally Spode in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale and Charlie Wood in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
Life and career
Reeves was born in West Bromwich, and was raised in Brewood, South Staffordshire. After being educ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A2n%20Reeves |
Li Chengjiang (; born April 28, 1979) is a Chinese former competitive figure skater. He is the 2001 Four Continents champion, the 2004 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a six-time Chinese national champion. Li placed as high as fourth at the World Championships (2003) and competed twice at the Winter Olympics. He r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Chengjiang |
Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow (Horrebov) (14 May 1679 – 15 April 1764) was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. He worked his way through grammar school and university by virtue of his technical knowledge: he repaired mechanical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder%20Horrebow |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara () is a Roman Catholic archdiocese based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It currently covers an area of 20,827 km² (8,044 Square Miles). The diocese was erected on July 13, 1548 and was elevated to Archdiocese on January 26, 1863.
The Archdiocese of Guadalaja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Archdiocese%20of%20Guadalajara |
Victoria Margareta Sandell Svensson (born 18 May 1977) is a Swedish football manager and former player. Nicknamed Vickan, she was team captain on the Swedish women's national team and Djurgårdens IF Dam, captaining the national team during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, and is one of the most merited Swedish football... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Sandell%20Svensson |
Rebecca Lee Lok Sze, MH (Traditional Chinese: 李樂詩, born 1944 in Canton) is an explorer from Hong Kong. She is the first Hong Kong person and the first woman to have visited the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest. She has visited the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon (the deepest canyon in China) and the Taklamakan (the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Lee%20%28explorer%29 |
Tyr, in comics, may refer to:
Tyr (Marvel Comics), an Asgardian in Marvel Comics
Tyr, a character in the Danish series Valhalla
See also
Tyr (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyr%20%28comics%29 |
Zhang Min (; born 24 March 1976) is a Chinese former competitive figure skater. He is a two-time Four Continents medalist and a three-time Chinese national champion. He competed at three Winter Olympic Games, placing as high as tenth, and finished a career-best seventh at the 2004 World Championships.
At the 1999 Four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Min%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Il cucchiaio d'argento (), or The Silver Spoon in English, is a major Italian cookbook and kitchen reference work originally published in 1950 by the design and architecture magazine Domus. It contains about 2000 recipes drawn from all over Italy, and has gone through eleven editions.
History
It originated from a pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%20cucchiaio%20d%27argento |
Matthew Allwright (born 14 April 1970) is an English television presenter, journalist, and musician. He has presented shows such as Watchdog, Rogue Traders, Food Inspectors, The Code, Fake Britain and The One Show for BBC One.
Early life
Allwright was educated at two independent schools in Berkshire: Dolphin School in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Allwright |
The 1922 Labour Party leadership election was the first leadership election for the posts of chairman and leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Previously the position had been simply the "Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party".
The election took place when the incumbent chairman J. R. Clynes was challenged b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922%20Labour%20Party%20leadership%20election%20%28UK%29 |
Hours of Work (Coal Mines) Convention, 1931 was an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1931:
The convention was never brought into force.
Revision
The principles of the convention were subsequently revised by ILO Convention C46.
Withdrawn
The convention was never brought into force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours%20of%20Work%20%28Coal%20Mines%29%20Convention%2C%201931 |
Kenya has a Christian majority, with Islam being the second largest faith representing 10.9% of the Kenyan population, or approximately 5.2 million people as of 2019 census. The Kenyan coast is mostly populated by Muslims. Nairobi has several mosques and a notable Muslim population. The faith was introduced by merchant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Kenya |
Charles Harold Dodd (1884–1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian. He is known for promoting "realized eschatology", the belief that Jesus' references to the kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future apocalypse. He was influenced by Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20H.%20Dodd |
The Birmingham gauge is a wire gauge system, and is also used to specify thickness or diameter of hypodermic needles and tube products.
Terminology
Birmingham gauge is also known as the Stubs Iron Wire Gauge or Birmingham Wire Gauge. It is not the same as, though similar to, the Stubs Steel Wire Gauge.
Birmingham ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20gauge |
An avoidance response is a response that prevents an aversive stimulus from occurring. It is a kind of negative reinforcement. An avoidance response is a behavior based on the concept that animals will avoid performing behaviors that result in an aversive outcome. This can involve learning through operant conditioning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance%20response |
Lluís Llach i Grande (; born 7 May 1948) is a Catalan singer-songwriter, novelist and politician from Spain. He is one of the main representatives of the nova cançó genre and an outspoken advocate of the right to self-determination of Catalonia. His most famous song, "L'Estaca", has become the unofficial anthem of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llu%C3%ADs%20Llach |
Gairsay (Old Norse: Gáreksey) is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, located in the parish of Rendall, off the coast, astride one of the approaches to the bays of Firth and Kirkwall. It is about long and wide and includes one conical hill and a small harbour called Millburn Bay, which is sheltered by the peninsula k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairsay |
Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning (1697 – 27 December 1732), was a Scottish nobleman, politician and poet.
Life
The son of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington, and Helen Hope, he used the courtesy title Lord Binning from birth.
Lord Binning was present with his father at the Battle of Sheriffmuir, in 1715. From 171... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hamilton%2C%20Lord%20Binning |
WRNS-FM (95.1 MHz) is a radio station located in Kinston, North Carolina in the United States. Its format is contemporary country.
The station has a non-directional signal of 100,000 watts, that reaches "from the capital to the coast". The station has served Kinston and eastern North Carolina since the 1960s, when it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRNS-FM |
Mark Stephen Moraghan (born 27 January 1963) is an English actor and singer. He has appeared in many British drama series including Peak Practice, London's Burning and Heartbeat. He is most famous for being the narrator for the children's television show Thomas & Friends from the seventeenth to twenty-first seasons, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Moraghan |
The following lists events that happened during 1947 in Australia.
Incumbents
Monarch – George VI
Governor-General – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (until 11 March), then William McKell
Prime Minister – Ben Chifley
Chief Justice – Sir John Latham
State Premiers
Premier of New South Wales – William McKell (until 6 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%20in%20Australia |
The Ashbury Carriage and Iron Company Limited was a manufacturer of railway rolling stock founded by John Ashbury in 1837 in Commercial Street, Knott Mill in Manchester, England, near the original terminus of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway. It moved to Ashton Old Road, Openshaw in 1841 and beca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashbury%20Railway%20Carriage%20and%20Iron%20Company%20Ltd |
Unknown White Male is a 2005 documentary film directed by Rupert Murray, covering the life of his childhood friend Doug Bruce, a British resident of New York who appeared to suffer from sudden amnesia, who woke up on a subway train in Coney Island in 2003, not knowing who or where he was.
The film premiered at the Sun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown%20White%20Male |
Kenneth W. Meyer (July 14, 1925 – August 14, 2016) was an American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He may be best remembered as the head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s San Francisco 49ers in 1977, and winning two college national championships at Alabama coaching u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Meyer |
Erbach an der Donau is a town on the Danube River in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Located in the Alb-Donau District, Erbach lies between Ulm and Ehingen an der Donau on the southern edge of the Swabian Jura.
History
The oldest known mention of Erbach was in the Konstanz Tithe Book in 1275 as a parish called Irlebach, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbach%20an%20der%20Donau |
Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1932:
Modification
This convention is a partial revision of Convention C28 - Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention, 1929 (shelved). It was subsequently revised in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection%20against%20Accidents%20%28Dockers%29%20Convention%20%28Revised%29%2C%201932 |
In music, an augmented major seventh chord or major seventh sharp five chord is a seventh chord composed of a root, major third, augmented fifth, and major seventh (1, 3, 5, 7). It can be viewed as an augmented triad with an additional major seventh. When using popular-music symbols, it is denoted by augM7, +M7, +7, M7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20major%20seventh%20chord |
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